I should print this out. I really think this may be a big part of the problem.

Well, yeah it sometimes does happen even if I’m not googling, but it’s nowhere near as exhausting. But I feel like forcing myself to stick to methodically approaches still great advice.

Sub-brain will obey forebrain, I am not offering any choices or debate on the issue. We are standing up now and the feet are walking, the decision is final, now stfu.

I like that. Never really thought of it as a willpower thing. But yeah I think you are right.

I think you are making a good point. For private projects I do in fact programme a lot in go. Sometimes I even pull the plug on my router and use just devdocs.io to get things done. And this does make things at least a lot more bearable. Before I started the post graduate programme I’m currently in I did full stack development for a living in different projects. Usually Spring Boot + either vue, react or angular for frontend. And I 100% agree with you: Spring Boot is just madness. My personal arch enemy is Hibernate though. It’s awesome when it works, but at some point it won’t and then it is absolute hell. Problem is that where I live go jobs are scarce. Virtually everyone here is doing Spring Boot.

I think sometimes I do enjoy bug hunting as well, but only if I didn’t write the bug myself and only if there is no research outside the editor involved. Fixing my own bugs feels like “not progressing” to me. So tell us your secret.